Course Curriculum

Module One: Introduction to EHSCCP

    1. Head Start History, Services, and Guiding Documents

    2. Partnership Benefits and Collaboration

    3. Collaborating Is Powerful!

    4. Program Governance

About this course: EHSCCP Training Module One discusses the collaboration between community childcares and Early Head Start programs. The module gives an overview of the EHSCCP, Head Start Program Governance, and how it all works together to improve services.

  • 4 lessons
  • Quizzes
  • Instructor: Dana Staser

What You Need to Know

The Early Head Start Partnerships are an innovative and effective strategy to expand high-quality services to children and families in the community. Understanding how the partnerships work and how parents play an important role in the governance of the Head Start program.

  • Participants will discuss the history of Head Start and how President Lyndon Johnson began Head Start program began as an anti-poverty strategy.

  • Parents are an important component of all Head Start programs. They participate in all levels of programming including the governance of the Head Start.

  • Text length of individual points can be shorter or longer depending on your needs

  • Head Start Performance Standards are one set of requirements that all programs must follow. Discussions about the Standards and how they practically are implemented in programs.

Instructor(s)

Curriculum Director/Senior Instructor

Dana Staser is the Founder/President of Dana Staser Consulting, LLC. She is a workforce and leadership development expert with over 25 years of experience in providing coaching and consultation to early care and education agencies nationally. She has worked with a variety of early care and education agencies across the country to increase high quality service delivery to children and families by increasing staff and leadership skills and capacities. She is an advocate for innovative, intentional, and meaningful professional development for staff and leadership to impact outcomes for the children and families they serve. Most recently, Dana was an Assistant Director-Early Head Start/Head Start Coaching in Phoenix, Arizona. Dana administrated and managed state and national research grants providing leadership and technical assistance to programs involved in the implementation and research of embedded professional development. She worked closely with philanthropic stakeholders both statewide and across the country as well as nationally recognized universities to develop and implement an innovative coaching model for teaching and family service staff. Dana has facilitated workshops, trainings and is a national conference speaker on workforce development and leadership capacity building to increase high quality and sustainability in programs.

Dana Staser